Quotes about Controversy
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour's need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
— Rob Bell
a person who speaks to this hour's need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
— Rob Bell
for a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere
— Rob Bell
But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.
— Rob Bell
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.
— Thomas Jefferson
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
— Girolamo Savonarola
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
— Mark Twain
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
— GK Chesterton
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
— John Adams
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
— GK Chesterton
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
— Desmond Tutu
They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.
— Ken Ham